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Ishtiaque Fazlul; Cory Koedel; Eric Parsons – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Free and reduced-price meal (FRM) eligibility is commonly used in education research and policy applications as an indicator of student poverty. However, using multiple data sources external to the school system, we show that FRM status is a poor proxy for poverty, with eligibility rates far exceeding what would be expected based on stated income…
Descriptors: Poverty, Eligibility, Lunch Programs, Family Income